Ambergris

Ahahah. Indeed. :disappointed: Mexico reminds me of drugs, and lately of much violence. It also reminds me of tequila, guacamole, Mariachis and Soap Operas... Oh and the Aztec civilization too.

Delphic - Doubt

Muse - Starlight

Tegan & Sara - Hell

The xx - Crystalised

No, I don't think that is possible, but I could see that I screwed in the "Writing based on reading and listening" and I did good on the "Writing based on knowledge and experience". It says that my bad performance on the former was probably because I didn't get to understand the lecture or reading passage or due to many gramatical errors. I really don't know what could happen there, I really thought I nailed that topic and I totally understood it. :blank: And no, I didn't do any toefl writing excercises on the internet. Actually my biggest practicce is when I come here and I've been doing that for a while. :lol: This time I will take the thing more seriously and search for some test practicce on the internet... You could help me a lot if you shared with me those books. :p Well... unusual... maybe. I guess that besides English, people here would rather learn French, Italian or Portuguese. But I really like the German culture and language... Let's see if I get to go there anytime soon. Oh the future... :P Btw, you're from the Netherlands, right? are you studying there or in other country?

I wonder how it will be when it's all over.

Still snowing in May? :thinking: How weird is that? --- It just started raining! I like it when it rains at night.

I wonder if I'll get an e-mail soon, with a positive answer. Because I really hope so.

Oh wait... are you Ari? :uhoh2: Yes... he's more close to win, but unfortunately the things might get really complicated. Some important/influential political characters (including the president) do not really want Mockus to win and they're making alliances to support Santos... The dirty campaign just started. Mockus doesn't have the political machinery the other candidate has, since he just relies on the opinion vote, but he's a very honest man and many people can see that. For those who understand Spanish, you could read some interesting article about Mockus family here: http://www.elespectador.com/impreso/antanas-mockus/articuloimpreso201018-antanas-mockus-lituano

Goldfrapp - Black Cherry

Wait, you mean you don't use second rounds (round-offs) in Tibet or wherever you are located? Well... this last friday. It's hard to say it, but polls suggest Mockus would get about 39% and Santos 26% that not being enough to win, a second vote round would give Mockus more than 50% and Santos only about 20%. That was for last Friday... I hope for this next Friday Mockus rises some and gets more closer to the 51% of the votes he needs for winning on the first round. :D

Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night

^ I've never heard of it, but is it really a great suggestion for reading? Btw, this means I got into the gathering. !!!! :D I'll tell you all how it is after my first reunion, which I think will be in about 1-2 months (time we all have to read the book). /gossip/ I hope it's not too weird to be there with my friend (who introduced me to this whole gathering idea), now that we have some kind of informal affair that I've been pretty much trying to avoid lately, because I'm afraid of what could happen. :thinking: /gossip/

Thom Yorke - Atoms For Peace

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww... adorable picture Ivet!

For you to understand how BIG this is, you better check the picture of our next president when he was running for Mayor of the capital (he actually was Mayor of the city twice): :lol:

Yes, he is the son of Lithuaninan immigrants... Many came to the country during/after the 2nd World War. Lol, the truth is that I have so little idea of the actual political system in my country. But yes, the congress is made up of 122 members of the senate and a 166 members chamber of representatives. All members are elected every 4 years... just as the presidency power.

Mark, don't you actually have anything better to do than posting such pointless news? People making lines for buying things in the UK... Wow that's amazing news.

This has definitely called the attention of some important publications in the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/30/colombia-antanas-mockus-green http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16015299 :)

It seems like my book was finally chosen... :p There was a triple tie between Zuckerman Bound (of Philip Roth), The Music of Chance (Paul Auster) and my book: Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak). The voting was public obviously... and I got to vote last... Well I voted for mine (Nobody else voted for theirs lol).

U2 - Sweetest Thing Do-do-do-do....

:P

Yep. That's why I said it. Plus, his style on his compositions is more on the avant gard, minimalist music precursors. Of course one can also consider him as classical. Man, that Nocturne gave me chills. It's really beautiful.

Another book in my list is: The Reader of Bernhard Schlink.